Door attachment.



, 2. WILEY.

DOOR ATTACHMENT. I APPLICATION FILED FEB- 7, I916.

1 241 ,458. Patented Se t. 25,- 1917.

Qmi/Imaoaco ilNTT EVERETT WILEY, OF YATES CITY, ILLINOIS.

DOOR ATTACHMENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EVERETT WILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yates City, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Door Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention contemplates the provision of a contrivance. in the nature of a door attachment, designed to drive flies or other insects away from the door prior to opening the same, thereby maintaining the room or building free from such insects which are as well known, both troublesome and unsanitary.

The invention aims to provide a device of this character embodying among other features, a manually operable fan blade which can be associated with doors of ordinary construction, and operated from either side thereof.

The nature and advantages of the invention will be readily apparent when the following description is read in connection 2 with the accompanying drawing, the invention residing in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as claimed.

In the drawing forming part of this specification like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views and wherein Figure 1 is a fragmentary portion of a door showing my invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view.

Fig. 4 is a view of a fan blade.

Fig. 5 is a view of the shaft.

Before entering into a detail description of what is herein shown, I desire to have it understood that the drawing merely illustrates one embodiment of the invention and that various changes in the construction and arrangement may be resorted to when desired as fall within the scope of what is claimed.

While the device is shown as used in connection with a screen door indicated generally at A it is desired to have it understood that the device is susceptible for use in connection with any suitable support. The device illustrated consists of a substantially T-shaped bracket 10, the cross piece or head 11 of which is adapted to be secured to the door in any suitable manner, while the body portion of the bracket extends across the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept.25, 191?.

Application filed February 7, 1916. Serial No. 76,827.

screen wire forming part of the door. Carried by the free end of the body portion of the bracket, preferably forming an integral part thereof, is a tubular bearing 12 which is arranged at right angles to the bracket and projects beyond both sides thereof. The bracket is secured to the inside of the door, and is arranged so that the major portion of the bearing 12 projects through an opening in the door to the outer side thereof, and has mounted therein for rotation a shaft 13. The shaft has a smooth portion arranged within the bearing, and a threaded portion 141 projecting therefrom and arranged on the outside of the door, and upon which threaded portion is fixed the fan blade for rotation withsaid shaft.

The fan blade preferably consists of an elongated strip 15 of suitable material which may be wood, provided with a central opening for the reception of the threaded portion 14 of the shaft. Threadedly associated with the portion 14: of the shaft, and arranged at the opposite sides of the strip 15 are the nuts 17, which when tightened against the strip hold the latter fixed relatively to the shaft for rotation therewith. Secured along one of the longitudinal edges of the strip 15 are one or more blades 18, preferably constructed of light metal, and of any suitable configuration. A handle 19 is provided for each end of the shaft 13, and is secured thereto in any suitable manner, preferably by means of the nuts 20.

With a view of protecting the screen wire from injury, as well as to steady the attachment upon the door, I employ a pair of washers indicated at 21, which are arranged at the opposite sides of the opening in the wire through which the bearing 12 projects, the wires being held associated by means of suitable bolts and nuts indicated at 22.

In practice the device is mounted upon the door within convenient reach, to permit the handles to be grasped and turned to impart a rotary motion to the shaft 13. During this operation the fan blade is also rotated, thereby driving the flies and other insects off and away from the door, prior to the opening of the same, and guarding the room or building against the admittance of such insects which have been proved to be very unsanitary, as well as a source of great annoyance. With the construction disclosed means is provided whereby the fan can be operated from either side. of the door, the construction in its entirety being extremely simple and easily manipulated.

What is claimed is An attachment for screen doors comprise mg m combination, an inverted T-shapedi bracket, the, head of SitlCl, bracket 'belng se-.

cured to the cross'piece of the door frame With the stem of said bracket disposed vertically, a hollow tubular member carried by the stem adjacent its freeeXtremity-and projecting beyond the opposite sides of the stem andthrough the Wire screen fabric, Washers arranged at the opposite sides of-the fabric, means for-securingsaid Washers together to reinforce the fabric at the point through Which the said tubular member projects, a shaft passed "through said tubular member and mounted for rotation therein, said shaft being smooth for a portion of its length, and

for holding the latter fixed relative to the shaft for rotation therewith, said element constituting in part a fan, fan blades'carried by said element, and a crank handle associated With each endof theshaft and at oppositesides'of thescreen fabric for rotatingsaid-shaftas described.

In-testimony whereof I afiix my signature in PIGSBIICHOftWOWltI1eSSeS.

EVERETT WIIIJE Y.

Witnesses: v 1

PERRY- A TAYLOR, LERoY 'E; DUNTON.

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